Enough of this has coalesced such that I can make sense of it.
Early after I switched on it was indicated to me that I was not to enter the sanctuary of a traditional church or “I would defile myself and be made unclean.” This was a difficult for one who had been an Evangelical Christian for 20 years. I went through this amazing transition and all I wanted to do is show people “how easy it was”. That proved to be an extremely frustrating challenge. It would take more than a year before I met another who even understood what I was talking about. This was not because they did not exist but because for some reason I was kept away from them. I guess I was not ready.
It was because I did not want to be the only one that I focused my attention on my ability to show others that I had forsaken my own growth. That served to hasten the rapid speed that the process was documented. It took time to refine it and practice. There were miserable failures and much to learn. I attended a funeral of a family and entered a sanctuary with what I thought was a “pass”. It was not a pass and soon after not realizing a specific blindness chose to enter the sanctuary of the “Church of Religious Science” in an effort to find other who were enlightened. They were not and my experience was quite unsettling. This was a willful violation where the warning was not significantly strong to keep from blowing by it. I maintained sufficient connection but I now had a huge blind spot.
This blind spot was a huge hole that allowed much confusion and suffering to enter. I could help others but I was unable to realize the “opportunities” I once enjoyed. Eventually, the pressure became chronic.
It led to an incident where I hit my wife. I take full responsibility for the entire event and for that lapse in judgment I spent 15 days in jail. I am still trying to get back to the place I was before but to this point I am unable. I can try to couch it as a great learning experience but perhaps that is something I will leave to another time. I allowed confusion, pride and arrogance into my relationship and it as successfully poisoned everything.
There is no excuse for hitting a woman and to allow my anger to get the best of me only proves I master nothing.
I cannot hold Eliane responsible in any way as, quite frankly, it was all my doing from the start. I have been a poor husband and made poor choices. Worst of all I selfishly blamed everyone else for my shortcomings. I con only hope that the damage done to people that wasted their time listening to me was not as costly for them as my arrogance has been for me. It is apparent to me that will continually suffer the consequences of bad choices I made long ago and I will continue to face them as best as I am able.
Roage



